Whats your favourite book and why?

[TheRealJoeFish]

Additionally, a friend whose opinions on the subject I greatly respect has stated that some Steven King is very well done (The Gunslinger and the rest of the Dark Tower series in particular). I very well may get to that someday; in general, though, his work just isn't really my preferred sort of fiction. I did read Carrie - I found some parts of it to be enjoyable, but I was also turned off by how... simply saturated, absolutely dripping with teen sensuality and angst it was. Also, to be fair, it was his first novel, and first novels aren't always brilliant (anyone read Player Piano? Vonnegut's first, which was certainly very good, but only had seeds of what would be fully in bloom in his later work).